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Fun fact of the day: Luka Dončić has same amount of All NBA 1st team selections than Steph Curry and Russell Westbrook combined together. Luka is 27 years old.

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Stu Lantz will call home games alongside Bill MacDonald this season, Spectrum SportsNet says. Danny Green will be the primary analyst on the road.

JJ Redick calls Walker Kessler a “perfect fit” alongside Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves. Redick said he’s employed a switching defense more than he would have preferred in the last couple years. Kessler can be an anchor to allow for more man-to-man when cleaning up the paint.

Rob Pelinka says the Lakers had three objectives this summer: Re-sign Austin Reaves Acquire a franchise center (Walker Kessler) Add younger players that can “dribble, pass and shoot,” traits JJ Redick has prioritized offensively

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🚨 JJ Redick on the clear roles he’s laid out, do your job or you don’t play, and the healthy competition it creates: “There’s a very clear ask for you to be able to play. And if you don’t do those things, then you’re not going to play. That’s just the reality. We’ve already had some of those conversations this week with our players. We have high confidence in these guys that they’re going to buy into that. So it’s going to naturally create a lot of healthy competition. And everybody at some point inevitably will get a chance to impact our team and impact winning.”

Luka Doncic said he’s feeling great mentally and physically entering training camp. He has no restrictions. Per, Jovan Buha

Walker Kessler is excited about anchoring LA’s defense, and after Tuesday’s practice was explicitly optimistic about where he thinks they can progress there: “I think we’re going to be a nasty defensive team … we have a lot of defensive tools.” He added that he doesn’t think people are taking into account how good their perimeter defense can be. Per, Mike Trudell

Luka’s playing in the preseason as per JJ.

Austin Reaves said Matisse Thybulle and Ziaire Williams have been the biggest standouts defensively through the first two days of camp.